I'm not really into the Bundesliga but it'll be a decent watch ahead of the second leg of the super cup.

Balls. I completely forgot the BL has games on a Friday night and I made plans. I'll have to miss it.

Wolfsburg have a good team. The missing piece of the puzzle was a good number 9 and they pursued a lot of targets but ended up with Bendtner. They could have mounted a serious challenge for the CL places otherwise.

So I caught a bit of the Bayern VFL game and it looks like Bayern were lucky to get away with it. Couldn't work out what formation they were playing. Looked like a back four but the centrebacks seemed pinned over to the left as if a third one should be on the right hand side, but there wasn't one.

The Bayern-Wolfsburg match was won, or rather lost, in the first half as Wolfsburg just didn't turn up. I know it was only 1-0 at that point but had they played like they did in the second half then they wouldn't have left without a point. Wolfsburg couldn't get the ball in the first half and when they did, their attacks tended to break down. Rodriguez at left back for Wolfsburg was having a shocker of a match as well.

Arnold came on at half time and Wolfsburg had a bit of a reshuffle, most notably with De Bruyne switching wings and it worked a lot better. Olic scored an absolute beauty from the edge of the box against his former club and they should have equalise when Malanda latched onto a cross and had his shot saved by Neuer from about 8 yards and then he fluffed the rebound from a yard out and put it wide.

Bayern had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside, though it wasn't given offside until the officials spoke to each other to ask if Muller got a touch on the shot which they decided he did. Whether he did or not, he wasn't offside.

Bayern played 3 at the back for much of the game but they were holding out for the win in the last 15 minutes or so which is why it would have been more difficult to make out their shape.

Dortmund Leverkusen kicked off at the same time as our game. Dortmund playing a rather strange lineup with a lot of important players on the bench or not in the squad. They're losing 0-1 currently after conceding in the first minute.

Edit: both the official BL website and Whoscored have Dortmund playing a diamond in midfield with Immobile and Aubameyang up front, with Reus in the hole.

Sevilla 1-1 Valencia - Valencia had a man sent off at 1-0 down and managed to equalised with a few minutes to go.

Almeria 1-1 Espaņol - Espaņol had a man sent off for two soft yellow cards after about half an hour. Stadium lights went out second half for about 10 minutes and Espaņol equalised in the 103rd minute after 12 minutes of injury time.

Not suggesting he will be a success for Man Utd, but that Real Madrid are selling their most important player from last season: a man who played the role of two players and allowed them to accommodate Bale and Ronaldo. He gave them balance.